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by tyng 1532 days ago
Schools are closed, and for good reasons. If I'm the parent I wouldn't want my kids to get COVID. The gospel of online education may be coming true? Jokes aside, it's not as miserable as many people may think.
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> If I'm the parent I wouldn't want my kids to get COVID

The risks of missing education, physical activity and socialization are far greater for children than Covid. We have two years of data to show this.

Limiting the analysis to just the possible impact on children without taking into account the impact on the complex interconnected system that is modern society might not be the best way to analyze this.
It's not a permanent lockdown... just for a few weeks (so far)
Just Two Weeks!!

It requires a lot of privilege and disconnect from the average person to support a lockdown two years into this.

Perhaps after two months I will think differently :D
Well, unlike the previous poster I do think 2 weeks is not that much. Most lockdowns here in Europe have been longer than that.

The difference is that lockdowns here were a lot less strict. It was still possible to go to the shops for example, and people in critical supply chains (e.g. food, medical) could still work. Precisely to avoid this kind of issue where people are running out of food.

I’ve found it super tough to do online school with a small child. For the under 10 kids they need a lot of supervision and the online school becomes your day job. So if both parents are trapped at home trying to work it’s hell
Do people feel that the lockdown is justified? I saw the start of a paywalled WSJ article saying that there are 130k reported cases and no deaths? I don't believe them on the deaths part but if thats the information from the government how do people justify a lockdown?